Swansea Astronomical Society Blog

Thursday, March 19, 2015

AR 2303 moving across the solar disk while AR 2297 disappears around the limb.

A static tripod mounted Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ72 bridge camera at 60x optical zoom, fitted with a Baader solar filter, was used to image the Sun. The camera was set to burst mode, ISO-100 and 1/800s exposure at f/5.9. Images were captured in bursts of three. 59 images, precisely cropped and registered in Nicola Mackin's AstroCrop software were stacked and wavelet processed in Registax 5. Click on the image to get a larger view: